Can The Jets Be The #1 Show In Town?

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Can The Jets Be The #1 Show In Town?

In his season ending press conference Rex Ryan ruffled some feathers when he said the following quote:

“Let’s play this game in front of our fans and our stadium, the new Jets stadium. I can’t wait. We get our own stadium and we are not visitors in our stadium. This is our stadium. We are the biggest show in town, and that’s what it’s going to be.”

Giants fans and Mike Francesa reacted like Ryan personally insulted all of their mothers and sisters. However, I don’t know if Ryan was really taking a shot at the Giants. I think he sometimes just says things with the intent to fire up his team and build some excitement around the Jets, but you know what? It is going to be nice for the Jets to be out of Giants Stadium. They were visitors in that building and I don’t think that will be the case from now on. Hopefully, the Jets will now have more of a home-field advantage and they won’t have to deal with seeing a Jets banner sloppily stuck on the wall around the stadium and field covering up the Giants logo.

For a few weeks in December and January, the Jets were the biggest show in town. Can this continue in the foreseeable future? The reality is that the Yankees are the biggest show in town and when baseball comes to an end, the Giants remain the biggest show in town until the Jets can win a Super Bowl. The Giants just won a dramatic Super Bowl in 2007, in the one of the most sickening years imaginable for Jets fan. Since then, things have improved drastically for the Jets and things have gradually declined for the Giants, since there is obviously nowhere to go but down after being Super Bowl champs. Regardless, the G-Men did have a particularly ugly season this past year, finishing the season 3-8 after a 5-0 start and finishing the season by being embarrassed twice.

Of course it was enjoyable to poke fun at Giants fans during this past post-season run, but in the end who really cares who the biggest show in town is? I think the Jets will probably be a better team than the Giants next season and as of right now might have a better looking future but those things can change in an instant. All I am worried about is avoiding a let down after this past season. I want to see the Jets beat New England and Miami and move to becoming a division champ with a home playoff game. If the Giants are also good, which certainly a strong possibility, then good for them and good for the New York sports market.

I would love to see Dallas, Philadelphia, New England, and Miami fans all sulking as both the Jets and Giants won division titles next year. Both the Jets and Giants should be good football teams in 2010. They will both likely have plenty of prime-time games to show off the new stadium. The Jets will enjoy moving out of Giants Stadium for obvious reasons and the Giants will enjoy the improvement from arguably the league’s worst stadium to arguably the league’s nicest stadium. Giants fans don’t need to get salty about Rex being Rex. He only cares about continuing to build confidence in and around his team. Last year in a rare turn of events, the Jets were the number 1 show in town, now let’s string together a few years of that and get a Super Bowl along the way.

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Joe Caporoso is the Owner and EIC of Turn On The Jets. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, MMQB and AdWeek. Caporoso played football his entire life, including four years at Muhlenberg as a wide receiver, where he was arguably the slowest receiver to ever start in school history. He is the VP of Social Media at Whistle Sports
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